The French Connection -- The rise and rise of Eustace de Fiennes -- Geoffrey de Mandeville and other fickle Fienneses -- Intermarriage, bribery, temerity and indecision -- Friends and Lovers -- Wool, wine and war -- The Buying of Broughton -- So much Christian blood spilled -- When men of good breeding think nothing of killing -- Fair stood the wind for France -- The actions of the tiger -- Fiennes to the fore -- A family at war -- A Vaste Multitude Yielded Up in Death -- La Mort de Fiennes -- Another Fiennes loses his head for losing the War